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SIGKILL: Look Away

It only moves when you look away - and your job is looking away. Ration one flashlight between the work and the thing hunting you. A director-warden studies your habits and times its cruelty. Migraine-safe horror: all dread, no strobes. Free demo: first shift.

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Hexecution Games
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Hexecution Games
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About the Game

It only moves when you look away. The job is looking away.

You're sealed in a dying server vault with one flashlight and a purge quota. The warden running this place demands corrupted sectors be purged before the clock expires. The terminals are in the dark. So is something else. Your light freezes it; your work needs that same light. Ration one beam between two deadlines, and listen to the part of the dark you're not watching.

The loop

  • Pin it - your cone holds it where it stands. The beam drains. The purge stalls.

  • Work it - aim at a terminal and the view drops to the monitor: heads-down, blind, the room gone.

  • Watch the glass - the dark screen holds a reflection. It's the only warning you get, and the one you'll learn to hate.

  • The whip-back - the sound spikes; snap the light back. It's right there, frozen an arm's length away.

  • No AI-generated content - every light is computed, every sound is procedural, every cruelty is designed.

The warden is a director, not a dice roll

A warden studies how you work, waits until you're deepest in the task, then times its cruelty.

  • The Cold One starves you of sound.

  • The Liar corrupts your readouts. The threat never lies; the paperwork does.

  • The Reaper just tightens the clock.

Every cruelty telegraphs. Every death is an out-play, never a cheat. Learn its tells or be reaped as ordered.

Migraine-safe horror

Dread without the strobe. No strobes, no flashing, no screamer roulette. The fear is engineered from attention, audio, and silence: what you can't afford to watch, and what you can hear getting closer. Every frame is flash-safety-checked.

No AI-generated content. Every light is computed, every sound is procedural, every cruelty is designed.

The full game is a career ladder of shifts that escalate in rules, not just speed: deeper sectors, new wardens with new tells to learn, and an endgame that rewrites the contract. First shift free. A short, dense game priced like one.

look away, it moves.

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